RFE: new release?🤔

[kloczek]

RFE: new release?🤔

[rodolforg]

v1.4.4 is a version from 1.4.x branch, that is labeled as "stable branch" - i.e. we try to do little interventions (bug fixes and minor features) that we curate to not add more bugs or regressions. We avoid to change dependency library versions too.

The master branch is active development. We refactor and cleanup code, add major features and structural changes.
We provide development releases with 'odd number' scheme: 1.5.x numbers.

We intend to make a 1.5.2 release, as 1.5.1 is dated from October of 2021. However, we need to finish some touches (see #3293). Even the future release notes is a weight demand due to long time without any releases from master branch - but now @Keyikedalube is working on it :)

By the way, what does "RFE" mean? "Request For Enhancement"!?

[BobSynfig]

1.4.5 has been released, to be closed

[rodolforg]

We hope we have a new 1.5.2 soon lol

[pgilfernandez]

We hope we have a new 1.5.2 soon

why is this not happening? I mean, v1.5.x has been a lot of time in development and it works great, I use it in production... is anything blocking it to become the stable version?

[rodolforg]

why is this not happening?

Because preparing a release takes much effort than it seems. Believe or not, even writing the release notes takes time - and 2 years without any release ... well... read the 'draft' Keyikedalube made recently - until February 06 '2024 to help us.

Konstantin was away for a while due some reasons and he's great about this project management, test, packaging and release XD

is anything blocking it to become the stable version?

In the development branch, we can 'play' with the code more freely 'without caring' about some compatibilities, for example. We were/are making some internal changes on the core for better code maintenance and (theoretically) less bug prone, like creating some unit/feature tests, cleaning up and moving an old internal library to core, porting more layers to Cobra render engine, file path handling for better support to non-Latin characters specially on MS Windows, etc. These changes can occasionally breaks some stuff and we can only know after being better tested by us and general users - so we cannot call it stable yet. Regressions are so bad :(

In addition, we have some known bugs that should be gone before a stable release (or even a development one). Some untested PR that could be merged too.
We tried to list them here: #3293.